When disarming the panel manually from Arm Stay, the panel is making quite loud beeps when the time to enter my pin is ticking down. I usually disarm to leave when other people are still sleeping. I can’t find any way to silence this. I set the Chimes and Beeps volume to 1 and it is still quite loud (It’s hard to tell if it is affecting the disarm beep volume at all).
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No, but you can avoid the countdown by disarming through the app (as long as scenes on the panel is not enabled) or via keyfob
No, but you can avoid the countdown by disarming through the app (as long as scenes on the panel is not enabled) or via keyfob
Thanks! I don’t think those things will work for me, but I did figure out if I run a scene, it doesn’t do the countdown. So I can just setup a scene to disarm and the beeping is avoided.
worst “feature” ever
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This is no longer true. Countdown beeps can be silenced in two ways:
1 - Set your panel’s Night Mode in Photo Frame to cover the times when you want the panel to be silent.
2 - Starting with version 4.6.1, press the “Silent Disarm” button when disarming the system.
(You still get the very faint ‘tic’ noises when entering your code digits, but they are very quiet.)
Here’s a video about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/YRsbonqTMsI?si=veROc0GfsPRjf26I
Brilliant. Thank you for the updated information. Do you know if this will also silence the DSC wireless keypads?
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Unfortunately I don’t have a DSC wireless on my test bench. Perhaps the Surety team knows that answer.
I can say this works on the main IQ4 and the IQ Remote PG.
Im not finding that information documented. Do you have a part number? We can try to test it if we have one.
DSC ws9lcdwf9. Many thanks
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The above settings do not appear to impact the ws9lcdwf9 disarm tone/beep.
Thanks Tyler for the follow up!
Awesome, thanks for the update! I had to manually enter the patch tag to get 4.6.1 but the silent disarming is working well. (does everyone have to manually update?)
Now my last remaining annoyance is having to manually uncheck the entry delay on every time I arm stay.
does everyone have to manually update?
Yes, patch tags are generally required to download the newest versions.
Now my last remaining annoyance is having to manually uncheck the entry delay on every time I arm stay.
Have you tried scenes? You could set an ADC scene that arms the system that way every time, then control it from various devices.
Yes, thanks, I do actually use the scenes currently, but they have a few minor annoyances. For one, they bypass some of security features of the panel, like taking a photo of the person disarming. But the biggest issue I have is that on rare occasions the panel will hang/freeze when disarming. I have speculated that when you disarm locally it will just disarm the panel without needing to contact alarm.com, but when you run the scene, it goes out to alarm.com and back to the panel, so if there is a connectivity or service issue, the panel just gets stuck waiting.
This is insane that we can’t turn this off. When I come home at night the beeps for disarming when I come in are super loud and waking my family up. I have a keypad and an IQ Panel 4, and they are both completely ignoring: chime off, exit beeps off, chime volume, etc..
Please tell me this isn’t what I bought into when I replaced my ADT garbage with what is supposed to be a professional system - is this not something I have control over?
My opinion:
if you are talking about the Entry Delay - countdown beeps that start when you enter from outside while the system is armed (tripping a perimeter zone) - I think those beeps you definitely want! I mean what if you were an intruder that forced a door open - why give them a 30-60 second head start after they’ve broken in?
I think it may even be part of the UL 1023 standard, but the Surety guys may know for sure.
The beauty of using a pro, standards based system is that some lack of configurability is there on purpose to keep things safe and/or reliable. It prevents us from making some changes that would impact the system’s ability to do its job or invalidate its UL certification.
You can disarm from your phone before opening the door to not wake the family. Or if you have CarPlay, disarm from your car dashboard just before you enter the house (This is what I do. One scene to disarm the house and open the garage door at the same time)
Or, if you enter through a garage consider putting a keypad in your garage so it can be accessed without tripping a perimeter zone.
(Also, FYI - this thread was originally about disarm beeps not related to the violation of a perimeter zone, so technically a different issue.. unless I’m misunderstanding, if so, apologies)
This is insane that we can’t turn this off. When I come home at night the beeps for disarming when I come in are super loud and waking my family up.
This does sound like you are referencing entry delay beeps.
Can you confirm if you are referencing the beeps that occur after opening an entry door which announce the entry delay period?
If so, those cannot be disabled, they are a requirement of residential burglary alarms by UL standards.
You can disarm without triggering any entry beeps by sending a remote disarm command or running a scene that disarms the system prior to entering the home. A keyfob is another option.